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The Portfolio: Khaya Ngwenya

Friday Khaya Ngwenya - 16 Sep 2020

Photojournalist Khaya Ngwenya’s style focus on exploiting natural light while staying in motion

See the light and pass the Copyright Amendment Bill

Opinion Mugwena Maluleke, Tebogo Sithathu, Jack Devnarain, Tusi Fokane, Ben Cashdan & Jace Nair - 24 Jun 2020

Strict copyright laws, championed by media mega-monopolies, dash the prospects of young learners, performance artists and the blind in South Africa

The system in South Africa has its knee on the neck of the youth

Opinion Bonginkosi Khanyile - 14 Jun 2020

The youth of today can learn from the youth of 1976, who rose up and rejected the Bantu education system

ANC needs young leaders and uDuduzane could be one

Opinion Sello Ivan Phahle - 14 Jun 2020

Youth Day, June 16, reminds us of the role of youth in the struggle against oppression throughout the history of the ANC

The shifting meanings of that June 16 image

Article Feizel Mamdoo - 8 Aug 2019

Sam Nzima’s 1976 photograph still resonates with people – for different reasons

June 16: Don’t let commemorations mangle history

Article Dinga Sikwebu - 16 Jun 2019

The tragic events that took place on June 16 1976 have been appropriated

We haven’t achieved the aims of June 16

Article Athambile Masola - 15 Jun 2018

South Africa still does not have an equal education system, yet this is not impossible

South Africa has failed its young people. What can be done about it

Article Staff Reporter - 16 Jun 2017

The end of apartheid should have heralded a new South Africa for the generation born at its demise. But that hasn't happened.

Soweto uprising: Four decades on, SA still struggles with violent policing

Analysis Staff Reporter - 15 Jun 2016

It's exactly forty years since the Soweto uprising of 1976 where the police met students with brutal force. How much has changed in terms of policing?

Family feud behind mall’s removal of June 16 statue

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 16 Oct 2014

A statue of Hector Pieterson was removed earlier this month from Soweto's Maponya Mall "in response to the demands of Mbuyisa Makhubu's family".

Youth Day: Are we missing the mark?

Article Mmanaledi Mataboge - 16 Jun 2014

As the country marks Youth Day, concerns are being raised that young South Africans are no longer as involved in politics as their 1976 counterparts.

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